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World’s Candy Cigarettes

If I learned anything from 1960s advertising and Clint Eastwood movies, it’s that smoking cigarettes are cool. However, there has always been one major hurdle preventing me from epic coolness and it’s something men in white suits diagnose as lung cancer.

But regardless of your views on cigarettes and the potential, — okay, almost certain — health concerns that come along with it, there’s a certain charm with the candy version of those darn cancer sticks.

I mean, who here doesn’t remember fond memories of playing with candy cigarettes as a child?

I recently came across the Brooklyn-based World Candies’ candy cigarettes at an awesome candy store called Candyality (3425 N. Southport Ave. in Chicago, IL).